845. Christian funerary inscription

Description:
Two slabs, one of white marble (w: 0.43 x h: 0.71) and one of grey limestone (w: 0.43 x h: 0.76).  
Text:
Inscribed. The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 837.  
Letters:
0.07-0.10; capitals, with uncial D in the last line. The text ends with a monogram cross in a circle flanked by two palm-branches, as also 837.  
Date:
Fifth century A.D. (context)  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Vetus, in situ in the small cemetery immediately to the North of the apse of Church II.  
Original Location:
Findspot 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Bartoccini, Rivista di Archeologia cristiana della Pontificia Commissione di Archeologia sacra VIII:48, no. 7, fig. 13. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
tau-rho B(onae) m(emoriae) Ays-
theodori
fil(i) Sifila
uix(it) in pa(c)e
5 ann(os) VIII def(unctus)
men(se) Martio
ind(ictionis) oktabae
tau-rho BMAYS
THEODORI
FILSIFILA
VIXINPAE
5ANNVIIIDEF
MENMARTIO
INDOKTABAE
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
<g type="tau-rho" > </g>
<expan>
<abbr>
B
</abbr>
<ex>
onae
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
m
</abbr>
<ex>
emoriae
</ex>
</expan>
Ays
<lb n="2" type="worddiv" />
theodori
<lb n="3" />
<expan>
<abbr>
fil
</abbr>
<ex>
i
</ex>
</expan>
Sifila
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
uix
</abbr>
<ex>
it
</ex>
</expan>
in
<expan>
<abbr>
pa
</abbr>
<ex>
c
</ex>
<abbr>
e
</abbr>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ann
</abbr>
<ex>
os
</ex>
</expan>
<num value="8" >
VIII
</num>
<expan>
<abbr>
def
</abbr>
<ex>
unctus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="6" />
<expan>
<abbr>
men
</abbr>
<ex>
se
</ex>
</expan>
Martio
<lb n="7" />
<expan>
<abbr>
ind
</abbr>
<ex>
ictionis
</ex>
</expan>
oktabae
</ab>

1-2, Possibly Ays Theodori; see also in 837 ll 3-4

Translation:

(Monogram cross) To her good memory. Sifila, daughter of Aystheodorus, lived in peace for eight years. She died in the month of March in the eighth indiction.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.8)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XVI.8)

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